Tyldesley v TML Plastics Ltd [1996] IRLR 395 EAT
Reports relating to this case:
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Equal pay: "Genuine material factor" need not be objectively justified
- Date:
- 1 January 1997
In Tyldesley v TML Plastics Ltd, the EAT rules that an industrial tribunal was wrong to hold that the employer's genuine material factor defence to an equal pay claim had to satisfy a test of objective justification.
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No objective justification required
- Date:
- 1 July 1996
In Tyldesley v TML Plastics Ltd (24 January 1996) EOR68C, the EAT holds that in the absence of a suggestion that the factor relied on by the employer to explain a pay differential was indirectly discriminatory, no requirement of objective justification arises under s.1(3) of the Equal Pay Act 1970.
